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A. P. HOWES.

FAUGET.

Patented Deo. 24, V1889..

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

ALBERT P. I'IOVES, OF VOROESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF TVO THIRDS TO EDMUN D CONVERSE AND AMBROSE T. MATTHEVS, BOTII OF SAME PLACE.

FAUCET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 417,917, dated December 24, 1889..

Application tiled June 24, 1889- Serial No. 315,315. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT P. IIOWES, a citizen of the United States, residing at lVorcester, in the county of forcester and 5. State of Massachusetts, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements in Faucets, of which the following, together with the accompanying drawings, is a specification sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable persons IO skilled in. the art to which this invention appertains to make and use the same. This invention relates to an improvement in that class of faucets described in my previous Letters Patent, No. 388,362.

I The object of my present invention is to simplify the manufacture and to provide, in connection with the valve-cup, a dentilated ring or collar having a series of radially-disposed proj ectionsthereon surrounding the cup 2o and extending across the annular space about the periphery thereof, whereby said cup is maintained central within the chamber of the faucet-body and in prop er relation to its seat, as more fully hereinafter explained.

In the drawings, Figure l is a top View of the faucet with the screw-cap removed. Fig. 2 is is a vertical central section through the body and cup. Fig. 3 is a perspective side view of the valve cover or cup separate. Fig. 3o 4 is a plan view of the dentilated collar, and

Fig. 5 shows the details of the collar when partially formed.

The body or shell A of the faucet is :made in substantially the same form as heretofore 3 5 employed, it being provided with the inlet passage m and means for attaching it to the supply-pipe. It has the removable cap A2, the projecting portion A through which the discharge-passage a is formed. The body is ft- Lo ted with the valve-seat a for the puppet B,

which controls the discharge, and with the surrounding seat awhereon the loose valve-cover or inverted cup C rests when the valve is closed.

The valve-puppet B and the means for effecting operation thereof bythe movable nozzle D may be substantially the same as heretofore employed. The interior of the shell is 5 5 Surrounding the exterior of the cup or valve cover C in accordance with my present invention I employ a dentilated ring or collar F, fixed at about one-third to one-half theheight of the cup, more or less, and presenting a series of radially-,disposed teeth or projections f, that extend across the space or chamber between the cup and body shell with intervening recesses t', as shown. The dentilations or projections f are of sufficient length and of sufficient numbers to form all sides and retain it central Within the chamber I while allowing it free action, so that the cup will take proper position on its seat a3, regardless of any side pressure or rotative movement of thec'up and valve. This dentilated collar is bestproduced by forming from a disk or blank F of thin sheet metal, by the aid of suitable dies, a flanged cap, as F2, and then stamping therefrom the dentilated ring or collar, as 75 Fig. 4. This ring is then by suitable machin# ery and dies forced or pressed onto the exte rior of the cup C to the position indicated, (see Figs. 2 and 3,) where it remains fixed pern manently and rigidly, as though formed integral therewith; or it can in some instances be soldered or otherwise fixed in place, if' preferred. p

The shoulder C of the cup C has an indentation e, that makes contact with the top B2 of the puppet B, where the latter is lifted, and by means of which the cup is raised in a slightly-tilted condition, and the external projections f serve to prevent the cup being thrown too much to one side in the action of the faucet.

I claim as my invention to be secured herein by Letters Patent-- l. The cup O, provided with the dentilated ring or collar F, formed and pressed from sheet metal rigidly fixed thereon and present y central periphery thereof a narrow re-enforcing ring or band that is dentilated on its exterior With radiating projections7 in combina tion with the Valve-puppet B, and the shell A, having the circular internal chamber, the

Valve-seat a, and seating-surface as, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination, With the chambered body and the cup C in a faucet, of a series of V projections with intervening' recesses periphf erallysurrounding said cup and radially disi posed across the annular space in the several directions for maintaining the cup in proper relation to the shell, said series of projections being formed on and supported by a narrow annular band or ring stamped in fianged form and pressed into place, substantially as set y forth.

Vitness my hand this 22d day of June, A. D. 1889.

ALBERT P. HOWES.

Vitnesses:

CHAS. H. BURLEIGH, ELLA P. BLENUs. 

